Other monuments stolen from the site at approximately the same time include stelae in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas (now known as stelae 33 and 34); a side panel from stela 33, which was sold as a separate artifact; and possibly an altar now in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art. The fragment was brought to Graham's attention shortly before it was to be auctioned at Sotheby's last fall.

Occupying an open plaza near the Brandenburg Gate, across the street from the public Tiergarten and around the corner from the shining commercial towers of Potsdamer Platz, the memorial's 2,711 concrete stelae funeral pillars—of different heights but identical lengths and widths—extend in shining rows, 54 of them going north-south, and 87 heading east-west at right angles.